This piece I dedicate to Honourable Rafia Zakaryia, whose article “Pardon My French” appeared in Dawn highlighting the racial crime of a cold blooded murder by French police of an Algerian teenager that sparked wide spread protest in France.
The man in the picture is of a native American namely Tall Bull (1830 – July 11, 1869) . He was a tribal Chief who led 500 people following him in the eastern Colorado and western Kansas and Nebraska area. He participated in the 1864-65 Arapaho-Cheyenne War of independence. In the retaliation on November 29, 1864, White American Army of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing an estimated 600 Native American including women and children.
History is testament to human tyranny when the same Red Indian Chieftain begged for peace and their people lives spared at a peace council in 1867 requesting the American should stop telling the Cheyenne that they should give up their land to have peace. Like wolves the white American pounced on the native American and poor Tall Bull was also killed on 11 July 1869. Thereafter the white Americans also killed the entire population of wolves knowing they share the same predatory characteristics and will never co-exist harmoniously.
It is around the same time period when my ancestors under the able command of Ghazi Sardar Ayub Khan were to brace themselves for a decisive battle at Maiwand in Afghanistan fought on 27th July 1880 that left one dog as survivor from the British side . This region and its people should be grateful to freedom fighters like Tipu Sultan, Sardar Wazir Akbar Khan and Sardar Ayub Khan and their likes , who bravely stood their ground otherwise today this land would have seen similar racial hate crimes that take place in the so called developed world ruled by the white skinned and white collar cannibals who perform the ritual of dancing around the fire of racial and religious hatred that they keep fuelling.